*blink, blink blink*
Excuse me while I go throw up for a moment, because I JUST FINISHED MY NOVEL! Um, yeah. I'm sufficiently freaking out right now cuz I wrote 50,431 words in 27 days. The freaking out also has nothing to do with getting stranded in a scary part of town today with no money and no way to get home... because HOLY SHIT I FINISHED MY NOVEL!!! WOO HOO!
I also settled on a title for the book: Blink. That's right, you heard it here first. My real, live novel has a title and it's Blink. And if I told you how many emails I got from people telling me off for not having a title yet, then I'd also have to tell you how many celebratory dances are being performed in front of computer monitors right now that I FINISHED MY NOVEL AND HAVE A TITLE FOR IT!
What did I learn this month? Well I certainly didn't learn that I can do anything I put my mind to because I already knew that. I did, however, learn that people who write for a living are fucking crazy. Although I'm sure the same can be said for Web Designers, who sit in front of their computers 15 hours a day and push pixels around the screen one by one. Seriously though, you have to be a little kooky crazy to be a writer and frankly, I don't think I can keep up with the number of nervous breakdowns it takes to write a novel. Cuz dayum. Blogging is the way to go, really.
I'm going to go stare at my NaNoWriMo profile for a few minutes now, reveling in the fact that I'm, officially, a winner. I'm also going to go throw up a little bit because I ended up spending $104.75 for a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks.
Comments
Congrats. Got an agent yet?
Are you offering?
Heartiest congrats. When/how will the general public get to read eet?
congratulations and a HUGE hug!
I learnt a lot this year from my own first attempt (stalled at around 15,000) - start on time (not a week late), and don't write something you care about too much, or it'll tear you into shreds when you produce bad prose.
Next year I'm having a second go, and just gonna write something fun and daft!
I never for a moment thought you wouldn't do it, well done! x
Congrats *blink,blink*...you novelist. You may wanna peek over at my site too. ;)
Congrats chicka! And my apologies for getting you hooked on the pumpkin spiced lattes. My bad! Good thing you don't have the coffee bean there - I'd have you hooked on Winter Dream Tea Latte's in NO time at all. I've been here a week and one day and they're $3.75 a crack...